Troublesome Upland former live-in nanny gets eviction notice

Diane Stretton, 64, was fired from her job as a live-in nanny and now has three days to remove her belongings from the house, according to an eviction notice posted on the home’s front door.
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UPLAND >> As it prepared for a July 4th holiday weekend away from home, the Bracamonte family hopes it has seen the last of a troublesome live-in nanny who they claim they fired but who at first refused to leave their home, then did but still has not picked up her belongings.

On Thursday an eviction notice for Diane Stretton, dated July 2, was posted on the family’s front door, saying Stretton had three days to remove her belongings from the house.

The Bracamonte family was worried that Stretton would come to the house while they are gone and end up refusing to leave again.

The family said relatives will be staying in their home while they are gone, and they don’t want them bothered by her.

A man answered the door at the home Thursday afternoon and said “he was babysitting and neither the family or Stretton were there.”

As of Tuesday, the family say they haven’t seen Stretton since June 27.

The nanny spoke out this week claiming the dispute will end when the media leaves her alone.

“Well, first of all, I wasn’t fired, unless you can be fired after you quit. I quit two days before they fired me,” Stretton, 64, told radio station KNX 1070 on Monday.

Stretton claims the family never gave her a day off, and she only refused to work two days when she had the flu.

“When I was working there, I didn’t get lunch breaks, I didn’t get coffee breaks, I didn’t get any holidays. Basically, I was working 24/7,” she told KNX.

Marcella Bracamonte said she and her husband, Ralph, sought a live-in nanny on the website Craigslist. On March 4, they hired Stretton, who they claim ended up squatting in their home.

Bracamonte said the claims against her family are not true. And, if Stretton really did quit, why did she stay in the home until last week?

The family agreed to give Stretton free room and board in exchange for her assistance, adding that Stretton never asked to be paid, Bracamonte said.

Since the news broke last week, the family made the media rounds telling their side of the story and how Stretton failed to do her job after only a couple of weeks living with the family.

Bracamonte said Stretton told the family she had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and could not work. She also told the family she was on disability and collecting Social Security.

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“If that was the case then why was she even working?” she said.

This week the family hired a new attorney who is working to file the correct court paperwork to evict Stretton by Monday.

Stretton said she has been living in her car since leaving the Bracamonte home.

“She’s trying to come off as the victim when she’s the villain,” Bracamonte said.

She said she made the mistake of using Craigslist to hire the nanny but all her references checked out.

“She’s done this to several other people,” Bracamonte said.

Stretton is listed as a serial litigator and has been placed on California’s Vexatious Litigant list, according to court documents.

She also has filed two lawsuits in San Diego County,

Reporters Doug Saunders and Greg Cappis contributed to this report.

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